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IBM Spectrum Control Reviews

Vendor: IBM
3.9 out of 5

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IBM Spectrum Control mindshare

As of January 2025, the mindshare of IBM Spectrum Control in the Storage Management category stands at 8.2%, down from 8.5% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Financial Services Firm
20%
Manufacturing Company
15%
Computer Software Company
14%
Government
7%
University
7%
Media Company
5%
Educational Organization
5%
Logistics Company
3%
Energy/Utilities Company
3%
Healthcare Company
3%
Hospitality Company
3%
Insurance Company
3%
Comms Service Provider
3%
Retailer
3%
Transportation Company
2%
Non Profit
2%
 

IBM Spectrum Control reviews

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Senior Technical Specialist at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Verified user of IBM Spectrum Control
Mar 4, 2021
Product discussed: 5.4.2
A monitoring and analytics solution with useful tools for IBM storage devices.

Pros

"In my opinion, it's the best monitoring and report creation tool for IBM storage devices. You can do a lot of performance stats and reports with very nice tools for IBM storage devices."

Cons

"The initial setup for IBM Spectrum Control is a bit complicated. They should also make it easier to integrate and use the Cosmos Analytics tool, which is very complicated."
PeerSpot user
Open Systems Architect at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of IBM Spectrum Control
May 17, 2018
You can get a much broader spectrum of storage captures for 24 hours or longer

Pros

"The installation was very easy. You just install an agent on a server, and you give that agent access to your storage device, then it just collects the data. It took five minutes to set up."

Cons

"I would like to see is more information regarding the copy groups (the replication)."
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Aamir Jameel - PeerSpot user
Senior Systems Manager at Tapal tea
Verified user of IBM Spectrum Control
Jun 10, 2022
Scalable but not user-friendly

Pros

"Spectrum Control's scalability is fine - we can extend it for the backup requirement."

Cons

"Spectrum Control could be more user-friendly."
PeerSpot user
Storage Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of IBM Spectrum Control
May 22, 2018
A one stop, one shop product helpful for diagnosing performance issues

Pros

"The benefits would be mostly the ability to diagnose a problem."

Cons

"If we were to add VM level performance being able to monitor VMs on a VM level, then that would be good."
PeerSpot user
Chief Manager - IT Procurement at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of IBM Spectrum Control
Feb 19, 2022
It's highly secure and competitively priced

Pros

"Spectrum Control is highly secure and competitively priced."
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Technical director at I-Sys
Verified user of IBM Spectrum Control
Nov 9, 2023
The product keeps historical data for a very long time, but it does not support multi-vendor storage

Pros

"The product keeps historical data for a very long time."

Cons

"The solution must support multi-vendor storage."
PeerSpot user
Senior Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Verified user of IBM Spectrum Control
Sep 7, 2021
Product discussed: 5.2
Very granular with great technical support and good stability

Pros

"Technical support is quite responsive and helpful."

Cons

"The pain points were, and may still continue to be, the fact that there are multiple components of the product which are installed, you might say, somewhat individually."
Ramon Barrios - PeerSpot user
Gerente Propietario at INODO
Verified user of IBM Spectrum Control
Aug 29, 2022
Product discussed: 5.4.5.2
Monitoring and analytics solution used to structure information to diagnose customer challenges

Pros

"The granularity of this solution has been most useful. Customers can click on a single item and get the information only for the single item they choose."

Cons

"The database could be improved so that the complexity of installation could be easier. We would also like to have more granularity in the profiles and products for users. We would like to link the users to the tool to managers or auditors. "